IUP to Host Musicology Conference

IUP Music Librarian Carl Rahkonen and Music Professor Matt Baumer will host the fall meeting of the Allegheny Chapter of the American Musicological Society on Saturday, October 17, 2009.

The conference will bring scholars of music history to IUP from Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia to hear papers on topics ranging from Schumann and Brahms to the music of the French Resistance in World War II. IUP Professor Jim Dearing will speak on composer and conductor Edmund Louis Najera (1936-2009). The conference, which is free and open to the public, will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in Cogswell Hall 102 and the Music Library. More information.